Ntotroso honours Prez Mahama with durbar
President John Dramani Mahama has asked customers of DKM Diamond Microfinance Company Limited to be patient and allow the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to conclude investigations into the company's operations.
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He said the investigations would ensure that customers did not lose their deposits with the company when it resumed operations.
The President made the request in response to an appeal made to him by the Omanhene of the Ntotroso Traditional Area in the Brong Ahafo Region, Barima Twereku Ampem III, to intervene in resolving the issue that had led to the suspension of the company's operations.
The President’s intervention, in the chief’s view, would bring relief to the scores of customers who had cash deposits with the company.
President Mahama was speaking at a durbar organised in his honour to mark the inauguration of a water project at Ntotroso in the Asutifi South District last Thursday as part of activities marking his two-day working visit to the Brong Ahafo Region.
Background
The BoG, in May this year, imposed a 90-day moratorium on the operations of the microfinance company for breaching the Banking Act.
The moratorium was to allow for a thorough scrutiny of the operations of the company.
Water for all
The Ntotroso water project is one of 15 small town water projects being undertaken under the peri-urban, rural and small town water supply and sanitation project in the Brong Ahafo Region.
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President Mahama said the vision of the government was to achieve a 100 per cent water coverage by 2025.
Current access to potable water is 67 per cent.
He said it was the responsibility of the government to provide good drinking water for the people and promised that it would not fail in that respect.
He also stated that the cocoa roads programme would benefit all cocoa growing areas.
Welcoming address
Barima Ampem, in a welcoming speech, thanked the President for the water project at Ntotroso, as well as similar ones in other communities in the district.
He called for government’s support in the running of a community nursing school established by the traditional council.
Earlier in the day, the President had inspected a new polyclinic built by the government at Wamfie in the Dormaa East District.